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The Cut-Uncut
festival in New Delhi
will feature unedited versions of films which fell foul of the all-powerful
Indian censor board that continues to vet movies before their release.

Portrayals of sex, nudity, social unrest
and violence can still be kept out of movie halls under India's strict
laws that were first drafted in 1952 and later amended in 1983.

In the year of Bollywood's 100-year
anniversary, Cut-Uncut is being
organised by the ministry of information and broadcasting to demonstrate its
more open-minded approach, a ministry official said.

"We want to be more liberal, stop
enforcing the old rules and instead recognise artistic endeavour," said an
official in the ministry, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity.

Until recently, "long kissing
scenes, nudity and visuals depicting acts of rebellion against the
government" were all censored, he explained.

"With changing times, we want to
have a fresh approach. Our aim is to change the old set of censor laws
soon."

The festival beginning April 25
will open with a screening of the 1933 classic Karma starring Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani, whose onscreen kiss
was considered the first in a Bollywood film and was deleted at the time.

A 2004 documentary called the Final
Solution, which looks at the highly sensitive subject of Hindu-Muslim religious
rioting, will also be shown after it was banned for being "highly
provocative."

These days Bollywood is awash with
sexually suggestive material and scantily-clad leading ladies, but sex remains
a taboo and films showing kissing scenes are given an "adult" certificate
limiting them to viewers over 18.

The most popular films remain so-called
"masala movies", a mix of violence, romance and comedy for mainstream
audiences, but there are more and more filmmakers working to reproduce the
gritty reality of India
on celluloid.

Star director Dibakar Banerjee ran into
trouble last year with the censor board over his film Shanghai.

He had to delete two scenes depicting
violence in the political thriller, including a high-caste character murdering
a low-caste victim.

"I hated the idea of deleting the
most powerful scenes from my movie but, well, I had to chop them otherwise the
movie would have never seen the light of day," he said.

"Censorship has the power to kill
the spirit of a film. It's high time the government stops dictating what
Indians should be watching," he added.